Background: Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is commonly used to detect prostate cancer, and a major clinical challenge is differentiating aggressive from indolent disease.
Purpose: To compare 14 site-specific parametric fitting implementations applied to the same dataset of whole-mount pathologically validated DWI to test the hypothesis that cancer differentiation varies with different fitting algorithms.
Study Type: Prospective.
Prostate cancer primarily arises from the glandular epithelium. Histomophometric techniques have been used to assess the glandular epithelium in automated detection and classification pipelines; however, they are often rigid in their implementation, and their performance suffers on large datasets where variation in staining, imaging, and preparation is difficult to control. The purpose of this study is to quantify performance of a pixelwise segmentation algorithm that was trained using different combinations of weak and strong stroma, epithelium, and lumen labels in a prostate histology dataset.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProstate cancer is the most common noncutaneous cancer in men in the United States. The current paradigm for screening and diagnosis is imperfect, with relatively low specificity, high cost, and high morbidity. This study aims to generate new image contrasts by learning a distribution of unique image signatures associated with prostate cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aims to combine multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and digitized pathology with machine learning to generate predictive maps of histologic features for prostate cancer localization.
Methods And Materials: Thirty-nine patients underwent MRI prior to prostatectomy. After surgery, tissue was sliced according to MRI orientation using patient-specific 3-dimensionally printed slicing jigs.
Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MP-MRI), including diffusion-weighted imaging, is commonly used to diagnose prostate cancer. This radiology-pathology study correlates prostate cancer grade and morphology with common -value combinations for calculating apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC). Thirty-nine patients undergoing radical prostatectomy were recruited for MP-MRI prior to surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to diagnose and monitor brain tumors. Extracting additional information from medical imaging and relating it to a clinical variable of interest is broadly defined as radiomics. Here, multiparametric MRI radiomic profiles (RPs) of glioblastoma (GBM) brain tumors is related with patient prognosis.
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